Domestic implement.



P. A. RYCZEK.

DOMESTIIC IMPLEMENT. APPLICATION FILED Nov. 25. 191s.

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M www@ PAUL ANDREW RYCZJEK, OF KELAYRES, PENNSYLVANIA.

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Specicaton of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 4, 494'?.

Application filed November 25, 1916. Serial No. 133,294.

'invented certain new and useful Improvements in Domestic Im lements, of which the following is a speci cation.

This invention relates to improvements i n domestic implements, articularly to. appliances as used for attac ing or removing the closures of bottles and the like.

rllhe principal object of the invention is to provide an appliance by means of which the ordinary corrugated caps as applied to bottles may be removed in an expeditious and satisfactory manner without danger. of cutting or scratching theA hands or injuring the operator. A further object is to provide an appliance which may be used for inserting a cork or stopper within the open mouth of a bottle, and finally, to provide such bottle operating devices with additional features which mayl be employed in the removing of paper caps such as are commonly used on milk jarsand the like.

These and other objects are attained by the novel construction and combination of parts hereafter described and shown in the accompanying drawings, forming a material part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 is a plan view of the invention.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same, showing the application of the appliance.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a removable element ada ted to lbe engaged with one of the jaws oi) the appliance.

Fig. 4 is a artial 'side elevational and partial sectiona view showing the tool in operation.

Fig. 5 is a fragmental sectional view showing the manner of inserting a cork.

Fig. 6 is a perspective view showing the application of the opposite end of the tool, and

Fig. 7 is a perspective view looking from the lower side of one of thej aw elements.

- lin devices-of this class, it is desirable to' -liave a tool which may be cheaply constructed and which may be used with the utmost facility by parties without previous experience, and in the present construction this object is thought to have been attained, the tool consisting of a pair of handles, respectively 10 and 1l, connected by the pivot pin 12 in the manner of a pair of pliers or pincers, the handle 10 being substantially straight and having one curved jaw 14 suited to partially encircle the mouth of an ordinary bottle, the opposite side of the jaw having a hinged encircling element 15 pivoted to the main portion of the jaw by the pin 16 and held normally in operative position by the spring 17, as is best to be seen in Fig. 1,'which shows the two portions of the jaw nearly encircling the upper end of a bottle.

The other handle element, which is assed through a suitable opening formed 1n the other handle, has a curved head or jaw 20 registering with the center of the jaws 14 and 15 and provided with a recess 21 upon its lower side, the same being adapted to engage with an ordinary cork as shown in Fig. 5, whereby the same may be pressed firmly and forcibly into the bottle mouth,

and which is further provided with op ositely disposed recesses 22 engageable with the lugs 23 extending from the head. 24 of a plug having a reduced end 25, adapted to make contact with the central upper portion of an ordinary cap, as 27, in such manner as to press the central portion downward while at the same time the jaws 14 and 15 engage and turn up the corrugated flange formed with the cap loosening and removing the same from the bottle in an obvious manner, the position being clearly disclosed in Fig. 4.

rlhus an appliance is provided which will readily remove with moderate exertion any of the ordinary forms of corrugated caps and which will equally seat an ordinary cork in any of the common forms of bottles.

Also attached to the handle element-10 is an outwardly curved spur element terminating in a sharp point 31 adapted to pierce and engage with the paper caps commonly employed `with milk jars, the implement being reversed during this operation, so that the handle element l0 acts as a lever over the upper edge or mouth of a jar or bottle .removing the paper cap in a manner clearly evident in Fig. 6.

Having thus described my invention, what f claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. In an implement of the class described, the combination with a pair of handles, one

passing through the other and pivoted todll) tot

gether, of an arcuate jaw combined with one of said handles adapted to parti-ally encircle the neck of a bottle adjacent to its mouth, an oppositely disposed arcuate jaw hingedly engaged with said handle adapted to partially encircle the other side of said bottle neck, and means for normally maintaining said jaws in operative relation.

2. In an implement of the class described, the combination vwith al pair of pivoted handles directly pivoted together, a fixed semi-circular jaw formed with one of said handles, a movable j aw combined therewith, a spring for maintaining said movable jaw in operative relation to said xed jaw, and a hollow fixed jaw formed with the other of said handles, said jaw being adapted to register with the center between the first mentioned jaws and compress articles therebetween when said handles are forcibly brought together.

3. In an implement of the class described, the ycombination with a pair of handles pivotally engaged one within the other at one end thereof, a fixed jaw formed with one of said handles adapted to partially encircle the neck of a bottle, an oppositely disposed jaw hingedly engaged with said handle adapted to encircle the other side of the mentioned bottle neck, a spring for holding said jaws in engagement, a plug adapted to depress the center of a bottle cap, and means for engaging said .plug with the second named aw.

Signed at McAdoo in the county Schuylkill, State of Pennsylvania, this 27th day of October, 1916.

PAUL ANDREW RYCZEK. 

